... the story that Colonel Sartoris invented the tale that Emily's father had" loaned "the town money, it also supports the idea that Emily's father was probably one of the elites in the town. As history has proven it, people of great social status tend to use any necessary means to maintain their social structure. But inevitably, things do change. With the passage of time, death and other different factors, society moves in different directions. For Miss Emily, time does not mean anything, it does not bring any change. Even as the father lay on his death bed, Miss Emily does not want to accept his death. Doing so would mean the acceptance of a different kind of living, exempt of all the courtesy and chivalry she uses receive because of her father's social status. As Faulkner writes in the story, most of the families that used to live at the ...

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